Meet our Finance Leadership

With a strong and diverse background in higher education finance, chief financial officer Greg Ramirez, CPA ('03), has developed expertise in prospective strategy through the design and implementation of collaboration-based forecast processes and sophisticated financial models. As CFO, Ramirez provides strategic leadership for the University's operating budget, financial and capital resources, and finance operations. He is currently responsible for oversight of the Controller's Office, payroll, accounting, finance systems, payables, purchasing, tax, and financial planning and is the liaison to the Board of Regents on the Finance and Administration Committee.

Ramirez is also a recognized leader in the higher education finance sector, having presented innovative planning and budgeting concepts at the National Association of College and University Business Officers and Oracle User Group annual conferences. He was selected into the 2019 Western Association of College and University Business Officers Leadership Program and was also named Pepperdine University's 2019 Helen M. Young Fellow.

An active community member, Ramirez has served as vice chair of the Conejo Valley Unified School District's Bond Oversight Committee for the implementation of a $197 million bond measure. Ramirez received an MBA with a concentration in finance from Auburn University and a BS in business administration from Pepperdine University.

Katelyn has been at Pepperdine University since 2018, and currently serves as the University Controller.

Prior to joining Pepperdine, she worked in public accounting as well as a large, multinational corporation, where she specialized in state and local corporate income tax. She is currently responsible for oversight of Payroll, General Accounting, Finance Systems, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Tax, and Planning, Operations, and Construction Finance. Katelyn earned her B.S. in Accountancy from California State University, Long Beach, where she was also named the Dean’s Medalist for the College of Business Administration, and her M.S. in Taxation from Golden Gate University. Katelyn is grateful to serve at Pepperdine because everyone is united by the University’s mission, and because of the kind, and wonderful people she gets to interact with each and every day.